I admire Shameless Screen Entertainment for being one of the few UK companies to give such examples of European sleaze the time of day. Unfortunately however, they are often guilty of over-hyping their releases, but I suppose that comes part and parcel with the promotion of exploitation films.
With The Beast In Space we're promised a movie that will take the viewer beyond "smut heaven", and that "Science Fiction was never so wild and depraved as it is in this sex mad intergalactic saga"... Now, I haven't seen much space porn, but I've seen a lot of exploitation films and, to be honest, this is (on the whole) pretty tame. Well, this applies to most of the movie. The beauty (for want of a better word) of The Beast In Space is that it does have some truly bonkers scenes that certainly made us howl at the screen.
Yes, I'm talking about the horse-man hybrid with the huge prosthetic penis, and let's not forget the scene where the stranded crew all get turned on by horse sex. Ah, a theme is emerging!
Let's face it, these films are supposed to be fun. They're not really designed to turn you on, they're made to be watched by half drunk students with a love for European sleaze... which is exactly how I experienced this movie.
If I watched this on my own I'd probably be quite bored for most of it, so I recommend getting a few similarly minded mates over and whacking this one on in the early hours of the morning. It'll be all the more entertaining!
Unfortunately such thrills promised by Shameless are few and far between (with the exception of the final 20 or so minutes, which consists of an enormous romp), and I think the film tries too hard to give us a plot - the crew are searching for a rare metal... it goes on...
Perhaps I made the mistake of watching this as a double bill with Emanuelle in America, which is chock-a-block with amusing sex scenes. Alas, The Beast certainly didn't deliver when compared with D'Amato's 'classic', but it was a fun watch.
To summarise, too much attempt at (a poor) plot, and not enough ludicrous sexy space antics. Don't let that put you off entirely though, as I said the dodgy scenes are pretty amusing. I'd wait for the price to come down a bit before buying though.
5/10.